Exploring a Nike Missile Bunker

[TehBorken]

 From Underground Ozark's note on the urban exploration of a [a href="http://www.undergroundozarks.com/kc30.html"]Nike KC-30 missile silo[/a] in Pleasant Hill, Missouri:[/p]    [blockquote][em]Without getting specific, we found a non-damaging way to get down into one of the underground chambers ...[/em][/p]    [em]After a little while down there, while everyone was milling around doing their own thing, I figured out the elevator, although I didn't immediately know it. I was playing with the controls and noticed that some lights that hadn't been on before were now activated. So, not knowing if it would really work, I hit the button to open the launch bay doors.[/em][/p]    [em]The doors came SCREAMING open with a sound somewhat akin to the gates of Hell opening....[/em][/p][/blockquote][a  href="http://www.undergroundozarks.com/kc30.html"]http://www.undergroundozarks.com/kc30.html[/a]

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[Sleepy]

I would love to be able to buy one of these and live in it.

[Sportsdude]

they will either tear it down or build a walgreens or walmart on top of it.

[soapbox]

 [H3]United States: 1970 to 2003[/H3] [DIV class="thumb tleft"] [DIV style="WIDTH: 182px"][A class=internal title="Pickard and Apperson ran an LSD lab in this former missile silo in Kansas." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LSDMissileSilo.jpg"][img height=107 alt="Pickard and Apperson ran an LSD lab in this former missile silo in Kansas." src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ea/LSDMissileSilo.jpg/180px-LSDMissileSilo.jpg" width=180 longDesc=/wiki/Image:LSDMissileSilo.jpg][/A]  [DIV class=thumbcaption] [DIV class=magnify style="FLOAT: right"][A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LSDMissileSilo.jpg"][img height=11 alt=Enlarge src="http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width=15][/A][/DIV]Pickard and Apperson ran an LSD lab in this former missile silo in Kansas.[/DIV][/DIV]

American LSD usage declined in the 1970s and 1980s, then experienced a mild resurgence in popularity in the 1990s. Although there were many distribution channels during this decade, the U.S. [A title="Drug Enforcement Administration" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Enforcement_Administration"]DEA[/A] identified continued tours by the [A title="Psychedelic rock" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_rock"]psychedelic rock[/A] band [A title="Grateful Dead" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead"]The Grateful Dead[/A] and the then-burgeoning [A title=Rave href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rave"]rave[/A] scene as primary venues for LSD trafficking and consumption. American LSD usage fell sharply circa 2000. The decline is attributed to the arrest of two chemists, [A title="William Leonard Pickard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard"]William Leonard Pickard[/A], a Harvard-educated organic chemist, and [A title="Clyde Apperson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Apperson"]Clyde Apperson[/A]. The DEA claims these two inviduals were responsible for the vast majority of LSD sold illegally in the United States and a significant amount of the LSD sold in [A title=Europe href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe"]Europe[/A], and that they worked closely with organized traffickers. According to DEA reports, black market LSD availability dropped by 95% after the two were arrested in 2000. These arrests were a result of the largest LSD manufacturing raid in DEA history. [SUP class=reference id=_ref-29][A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD#_note-29"][34][/A][/SUP]

 In November of 2003, Pickard and Apperson were sentenced to two life sentences and two 30-year sentences, respectively, after being convicted in [A title="United States federal courts" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_courts"]Federal Court[/A] of running a large scale LSD manufacturing operation out of several clandestine laboratories, including a former [A title="Missile silo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_silo"]missile silo[/A] near [A title="Wamego, Kansas" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wamego%2C_Kansas"]Wamego, Kansas[/A].

 LSD manufacturers and traffickers can be categorized into two groups: A few large scale producers, such as the aforementioned Pickard and Apperson, and an equally limited number of small, clandestine chemists, consisting of independent producers who, operating on a comparatively limited scale, can be found throughout the country. As a group, independent producers are of less concern to the [A title="Drug Enforcement Agency" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Enforcement_Agency"]Drug Enforcement Agency[/A] than the larger groups, as their product reaches only local markets. Overall, LSD production in the United States is extremely limited, with very few individuals or groups capable of production.

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 [H2]References[/H2] [OL class=references] [LI id=_note-problem-child]↑ [A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD#_ref-problem-child_0"]^a[/A] [A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD#_ref-problem-child_1"]^b[/A] Hofmann, Albert. LSD – My Problem Child (McGraw-Hill, 1980). [A class=internal href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0070293252"]ISBN 0-07-0293[/A][/LI][/OL]